Web-based measurement: Effect of completing single or multiple items per webpage

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 393-401

  Thorndike, Frances P ^a   Carlbring, Per ^b   Smyth, Frederick L ^c   Magee, Joshua C ^a   Gonder Frederick, Linda ^a   Ost, Lars Göran ^d   Ritterband, Lee M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Assessment; Measurement; Online; Web

Indexed keywords

INTERNET;

ASSESSMENT; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORIES; CONSTRUCT VALIDITIES; MEASUREMENT; MULTIPLE ITEMS; ON-LINE QUESTIONNAIRES; ONLINE; QUALITY OF LIVES; WEB; WEB PAGES;

SURVEYS;

EID: 59049099825     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2008.05.006     Document Type: Article

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